Engineer / Designer

Tools for designers, product engineers, manufacturing professionals and other innovators collaborating on product development. If you are responsible for rapid authoring, analysis and validation of products and processes, then click here to find how ENOVIA can help.

Integrated and built on a common data management architecture with the V6 authoring applications (CATIA®, DELMIA®, and SIMULIA®), ENOVIA® VPM Central helps medium to large companies take more innovative products to market faster by providing collaborative Virtual Product Management (VPM) of complex product, process, and resource information — from marketing and design to manufacturing and maintenance.

ENOVIA® VPM Central™ manages design, manufacturing, and simulation of intellectual property (IP). Its sophisticated technology enables design reuse through a part catalog, providing design review and validation, exchange of information with partners, leverage of customers’ V4 and V5 legacy data, and scalability to handle large numbers of users and complex products.

ENOVIA® VPM Central™ manages design, manufacturing, and simulation of intellectual property (IP). Its sophisticated technology enables design reuse through a part catalog, providing design review and validation, exchange of information with partners, leverage of customers’ V4 and V5 legacy data, and scalability to handle large numbers of users and complex products.

Users of ENOVIA VPM Central can work on predefined design tasks, subscribe to design modifications and perform design impact analyses to evaluate potential alternatives or changes. Specific add-ons allow further expansion of this scope by enabling users to work on configured products, manage and track design changes, perform complete digital validation processes and execute comprehensive interferences-analysis to name a few.

Access to EBOM Data from VPM

Using ENOVIA VPM Central, customers can access EBOM data from the “Search” and “Explore” windows while respecting the VPM security context. EBOM part properties can be browsed directly from the associated CATIA product properties.

Assess Impact of Design Modifications in Real-Time

Users can navigate between design components and related items such as other designs, simulations, drawings, manufacturing processes, functional and logical views, etc. Better decision-making occurs when a user can determine the impact of design modifications.

Follow Design Modifications in Real-Time

Users can subscribe via emails and pop-ups to modification warnings delivered on any object (design, manufacturing, simulation) in the database. Product development enhancements occur more quickly as concurrent engineering intensifies.

Manage Engineering Tasks

ENOVIA VPM Central helps companies become more agile because changes are executed faster when tasks are defined explicitly, fully-documented, and all affected components are attached. Accurate progress assessment occurs because tasks are linked directly to projects and programs, which makes design activity directly visible to the project leader. Leaders can assign tasks to different designers, reviewers, etc. as project responsibilities change.

Collaborate with Cross-Functional Enteprise Users

Designers in CATIA® V6 often need to work closely with cross-functional users throughout the extended enterprise. This includes working together in a product launch project from ENOVIA® Program Central™ or sharing ideas in a team workspace from ENOVIA® Live Collaboration. From the VPM working environment, designers can easily work with these other users by uploading and downloading documents and completing their assigned project tasks. It is also possible to search, navigate on any customized data, edit attributes, and use Lifecycle Commands (change maturity, revision, or even duplicate) on ENOVIA® VPM Team Central® from ENOVIA® Live Collaboration and ENOVIA® Program Central™ data.
If necessary, the full project management or workspace management functionality can be launched from the CATIA V6 user interface. In addition, if the user is also licensed, ENOVIA® Requirements Central™, full requirements authoring and edit capabilities can be performed to understand/define the requirements influencing the design activities.

Access Design Components Catalog for Quick Reuse

Users can create and reuse catalogs of any objects and disciplines. Catalog creators can add keywords enabling users to find and retrieve information quickly. The VPM design components catalog is synchronized with the enterprise libraries from ENOVIA® Library Central™ to ensure company-wide consistency.

Perform Digital Review

Tailor Your Environment to Fit Business Process Practices

Customers can configure their existing VPM data model to better fit their business processes. They can also define specific roles with different access rules to further protect their IP.

Support a Single CAD Structure of CATIA V6, CATIA V5, SolidWorks, NX and Pro/ENGINEER

CATIA® V5, SolidWorks®, NX and Pro/ENGINEER data that is managed in V6 with ENOVIA Designer Central can be searched and navigated seamlessly in read-only mode directly in ENOVIA VPM Central. As a result, all VPM supported capabilities such as comprehensive review and process planning and EBOM synchronization are possible regardless of the native authoring tool.'

Accommodate Various Dassault Systèmes V4 and V5 Environments

Engineering teams can collaborate on product designs efficiently using various versions of CATIA. Designers using CATIA V6 and CATIA® V4/V5 can exchange design data to modify their design, and eventually update the whole product design accordingly. In addition to design collaboration scenarios, ENOVIA VPM Central also enables CATIA V4 and CATIA V5 users to share design data with downstream PLM processes such as manufacturing, simulation, and design review in a V6 environment.

Administrate Resources of CATIA Applications

Design experts can use the “Project Resource Management” workbench to associate resources to design projects in order to tailor how the CATIA designers’ work is done to meet company standards. Resources like PLM Templates, PLM Rule Sets, PLM Documents, Catalogs and Chapters can be accessed easily and quickly by designers based on their currently worked on project.

Stereoscopic Viewing

ENOVIA VPM Central users benefit from stereoscopic viewing to deliver the most realistic visual representation possible of complex digital models, giving engineers, architects and scientists the best possible understanding of three-dimensional information, and yielding levels of technical proficiency not possible using a regular 3D viewer. Stereoscopic viewing is delivered in two different ways:
• High-end realistic visual representation needs specific stereoscopic equipment with quad buffer OpenGL compatibility like the popular Nvidia 3D Vision technology, or 3D TV.
• Entry-range realistic visual representation can be used by: anybody with only a pair of “blue/red” paper glasses.